giovedì 26 novembre 2015

Tutorial: How to paint grim Age of Sigmar Stormcast Eternals Liberators!



Hi to everybody!

As you have seen in the recent posts, my last work are the Age Of Sigmar Liberators.
I've tried some new technique and I've decided to use a small choice of colours, to make them dark and different from the other Liberators you can find -for example the GW's are bright and with a lot of colours, mine are the opposite-. I think also that on the battlefield a "black mass" of those bulky guys has a great visive impact.

I also decided to crack the armours to give an "old but strong " veterans feeling (and I wanted to experimentate that idea).


I decided to share my painting scheme hoping to be helpful. As you'll see, it is simple, fast but IMHO very effective.




First step, before painting, apply some layers of this two "colours" (more agrellan than armageddon, you can avoid armageddon).
Remember it could be very scary to cover your minis with those, because it gives you the idea that you are covering all the details, but agrellan when dries do not cover too much them. My advice is to put thick layers onto the areas without details and very visible (chest for examples) and thin layers onto the others. You can give also more than one layer, depends on what you want. Remember that the primer is going to cover the smallest cracks.
Ah I've painted the shields apart ( not in the tutorial but the procedure is the same).





Leave the mini for one night and the day after you are sure that agrellan is dried. Apply some sand to the base (I use a "natural" sand, because it is more irregular than a modelling one) and apply an hand of black primer.




Now the base colours




A generous hand of black wash, it is going to reduce the blueish effect





Lets recall the base colours


As you can see the Polycolor black gives a natural and subtle shadows (shadows are given by black, non by the light of the lamp!).
Now lets add to the bases a light grey to give a monotone light




Recall the black




Now a part that I love: lets add  a brown glaze: this remove that weird plastic feeling that grey sometimes give. You can use whatever colour you prefere.





Lets give the last light (same colours) and recall the shadows if needed (always same colour), add metal highlights, apply the gloss onto the black. I love the contrast gloss/matt.
Base him with sand drybrushed with eshin and fortress grey (o rly?).


Then I dip the mini in a wash of water and black do make more soft the base-only the base-!



Last I use a bit of Vallejo still water for some puddles. I do not put onto all minis of a unit -for example- a bush or a puddle, it is too much inprobable that all the soldiers are near a bush or a puddle -and only one- in the same time. So I've done five of ten with a puddle, also to distinguish them in two units if needed.
Here the result!



What do you think?



21 commenti:

  1. I have a few questions, First when you say a brown glaze, is this a brown wash, or watered down scorched brown,or dry brushed scorched brown? Second is the trim around the shoulders and the halo thing around the head boltgun metal? Finally when you say "recall the black" after highlighting the base colors do you mean give it a black wash again? Thank you very much and GREAT WORK!!!

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    1. Hi! Thanks a lot!
      Here the answers, hoping to be helpful:
      1) it is watered down scorched brown (20%brown,80%water) and you should apply it from the mid tones to the shadows (remember, small amount of watered colour on the brush, if you apply it and the colour dry fastly the mini, you are right);
      2)it is simply a gloss varnish (a pair of watered hands);
      3)no I do another time the shadows because the brown glazing could make the shadows too much brown and less deep.

      Thanks for the questions, you have help me to clarify some notvso clear steps!

      Elimina
  2. So the whole shoulder is eskin grey, trim and all? I don't really understand what you mean by recalling the black? Is it just adding black to certain areas like the top of the shield and shoulder trim, then you apply the gloss varnish to these areas and any areas you picked out with the black?

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    1. The shoulderpad is eshin grey with all the step described for the grey parts of the armour: no gloss finish. The edges of the shoulderpads, the halo, the stomach and other small things simply black(no other steps) with gloss applied.

      Now lets explain the recall of the black. We are on the grey parts of the armours (no halo,shoulderpad edges, stomach etc): after the grey, the shadows,the light and the glazing, it could happen that you make "dirty" the shadows with the glazing (the brown goes on the black of the shadows): so I simply do another time the step of the shadows already done (not a wash, a precise brushing on the shadows that the mini has), to make them more deep.
      Hoping to explain better!

      To be more precise the black shadows on the mini are not a real black (the colour is black but applied softly and watered)but a very deep grey, as you can see: for explaining purpose I call it black.

      Elimina
    2. Ah logically water down the black for the "recall" on 80% water 20%black!

      Elimina
  3. Oh I think I see you painted the trim and the halo the grey color highlighted it up a bit, then glossed those areas?

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    1. You did the same to the hammer? So what areas did you apply the boltgun metal too?

      Elimina
    2. No no sumply black, and when it is dry, gloss: extremely simple!

      Elimina
    3. The Hammer is already only black and gloss,the boltgun is only on the black buckle and on the rivets on the head!

      Elimina
  4. Oh and the black polycolor isn't a wash it's just watered down black that you use for the wash?

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    1. Yes it is a black watered down 80% water or more 20% colour or less. It is a great colour very soft and matt, more similar to gw primer than gw black!

      Elimina
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  6. Awesome thank you for all the help!!! I think I got it! :)

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    1. You are welcome, and of you need other explainations please ask, there are no problems!

      Elimina
  7. One more quick question? Is the primer you used the same polycolor, just hand applied and used at 100?

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    1. Polycolor are simply acrilic colours: the primer is the gw's black spray primer -do not remember the name-.

      Imho gw black primer is different from the classic gw acrilic black colour, this is why I've said that polycolor is more similar to gw primer than gw acrilic.

      The answer is I used gw black spray primer as primer and polycolor black as black in painting with brushes.

      Elimina
  8. Awesome,thanks!!! Can't wait to see what you do with the dwarf fyreslayers coming out! Love your style it's dark and muted!!! With splashes of color,great stuff!!!

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    1. Thanks a lot! I'm sorry till now I've not scheduled them, but maybe in the future I'll find a bit of time for them!

      Elimina
  9. I'm sorry I've been trying to figure out how to contact you by email, I was just wondering how much it would cost to do a age of Sigmar starter box commission, painted up just like how you have painted everything else for the Stormcast(like pictured above) and khorne like you have painted else where on the site. Oh I live in the US by the way

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    1. No problem my email is
      darkgorydirtywh@gmail.com
      I'll gladly answer to all your question!

      No problem for United States!

      Elimina
    2. No problem my email is
      darkgorydirtywh@gmail.com
      I'll gladly answer to all your question!

      No problem for United States!

      Elimina